Sentences with phrase «high commodity»

According to recent media reports, economists are also expecting an improved economy, boosted by higher commodity prices and stronger global demand and rebounds in agriculture, mining and manufacturing.

Once builders are in a position to pass on higher commodity costs, buyers will begin to feel the price pressure.

For years, the Russian economy enjoyed stable growth rates supported by high commodity prices — oil and gas, in particular.

The companies will still provide a hedge against inflation as their sales increase on higher commodity prices and you will earn a dividend yield while you hold the shares.

Some people stop the story there and conclude that the only people who benefit from high commodity prices are those who work in the resource sector, but this is obviously an incomplete analysis.

This is a better way of thinking about the effects of higher commodity prices than in terms of the exchange rate.

However in reality, there are other simultaneous factors so the results have been less obvious but there is potential for high commodity index returns in rising rate environments.

Given higher commodity prices, mining could be viable, he added.

While the restructuring shift should protect profitability despite higher commodity costs, its primary purpose is to free up cash to invest in growth.

The household products maker also saw revenue beat estimates, but did see its profit margins impacted by higher commodity costs.

We've benefited from higher commodity prices but most importantly delivered a solid operating performance.

All of these sectors are impacted by higher commodity cost.

An important reason why the current recovery is so sluggish is that the usual external stimulus from higher commodity prices and external demand has been missing on this occasion.

Ford, the US's third - biggest automaker, is already struggling with high commodity costs.

U.K. shares recovered from early losses to trade marginally higher on Thursday as higher commodity prices helped lift mining and energy stocks and the pound weakened slightly after the release of disappointing services sector data.

Oak Brook, Illinois - based McDonald's, the world's biggest restaurant chain, raised U.S. menu prices 1 percent in March to help offset higher commodity costs, Chief Financial Officer Peter Bensen said during an April 21 conference call.

Rival chocolate maker Hershey Co (HSY.N) last week blamed higher commodity and freight costs for a cut in its full - year sales forecast.

Canada hasn't seen a gain like that since 2011, when high commodity prices helped the country forget the Great Recession.

For one, there has not been the increase in metals supply you would expect with sustained high commodity prices, because it simply takes so long to discover new deposits and then to permit, finance and develop new mines.

If high commodity prices and Canadians» open wallets pulled the country through the start of the recession, the government's stimulus package will be the «bridge» that gets the country back on the road to growth, says Antunes.

Amid generally high commodity prices, they have been extracting more dollars for their products and collecting higher profits: realized net farm income stood at $ 4.5 billion in 2010, up 46 % from the previous year.

Ford expects higher commodity costs to eat into 2018 profits, offsetting gains from cost - cutting efforts.

For decades, we have been living off unsustainably high commodity prices, particularly for oil and gas, at the expense of innovation and global competitiveness.

Hence, nominal unit labour costs in Australia increased by around 25 per cent relative to our trading partners over this same period, contributing noticeably to the decline in competiveness (outside of the resources sector, which benefited from much higher commodity prices).

The Regional Economic Outlook calls attention on the global economic growth, sluggish growth recovery in the sub-region, the relative higher commodity prices in the region and the need for improved market accessibility.

Given its still - high commodity exposure, it is 84 per cent correlated to the Chinese economy!

Most economists are predicting sluggish growth to linger well into next year, with persistently high commodity prices.

While higher commodity prices and cooperatively owned ethanol refineries could be a boon to independent farmers, unregulated ethanol industry growth will further concentrate agribusiness, threatening the livelihood of rural communities.

If that's not enough Liu previously founded and led the Quantitative Finance & Strategies division of Aleron Partners LLP, a boutique private equity advisory firm where he advised on transactions involving high commodities risk.

That period of reflection appears to have emboldened Poloz's conviction in the story he's been telling from the start: that international sales of manufactured goods and services would lead a rotation away from the economy's reliance on high commodity prices and consumption by heavily indebted households.

Its global profit margin was 5.2 percent in the quarter, as higher commodity costs reduced earnings in North America.

Teck Resources took full advantage of higher commodity prices earlier this year to pay off a big chunk of the debt that had been weighing it down.

Sharply higher commodity prices, combined with resumption of agricultural lending and recovery of the Amazon cattle herd, will challenge efforts to reduce deforestation next year.

Canada, goes the conventional wisdom, was prudent with its banks, and — let's say it — lucky with high commodity prices.

The effects of the increase in the cash rate and appreciation of the Australian dollar were more obvious in the non-mining sectors of the economy, such as the tourism industry, which were not directly benefiting from higher commodity prices.

Metals Processing underlying EBITDA of EUR 49 million, down EUR 14 million year - on - year, driven primarily by lower realised zinc treatment charges and zinc metal production, partially offset by higher commodity prices; and

Procter & Gamble said, «Higher commodity costs reduced core earnings per share growth by approximately five percentage points.»

Manufacturers and retailers are desperate to pass on higher commodity prices to their customers

With that in mind, Morgan Stanley makes the important distinction that the headwinds facing today's market — increasing valuations, rising inflation, tightening policy, higher commodity prices, and more volatility — are all normal hallmarks of a late - cycle environment.

Our response to higher commodity prices was the logical one: shift investment toward the resource sector and away from other industries, manufacturing in particular.

Food makers such as Kraft and Mondelez have reported soft volume as they've boosted the prices of their products to help offset the higher commodity costs.

But global instability, high commodity prices and low interest rates mean costs are continuing to edge upward.

Some of the pressures facing the company are beyond its control: higher commodity costs, fiercer competition, a restaurant industry showing little to no growth, and a strapped lower - income consumer.

Many commentators go on to conclude that the higher incomes generated by high commodity prices have given Canadians a temporary reprieve from the problem of low productivity growth.

In North America, Ford's market share declined by just over 0.5 percent and profit margins declined just over a percentage point to 7.8 percent, which Ford blamed on the higher commodity costs.

«Rising equities, rising inflation, tightening policy, higher commodity prices and higher volatility are (in our view) a pretty normal pattern if that view is correct.»

The statement attributed the gain to higher commodity prices and shifting expectations of when the U.S. Federal Reserve will next raise its benchmark interest rate.